Superconducting Electronics Technology
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2025 | Viewed by 105
Special Issue Editor
Interests: superconducting qubit/nanowire on 300 mm wafer scale; quantum materials/technologies; superconducting nano electronics; 2.5D/3D HI; CMOS/non-CMOS devices; process integration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Superconducting Electronics Technology (SET) is a broad area in the field of electronics, with some important research and cross-over implications. Superconductor electronics combines passive and active superconducting devices and room-temperature electronics for amplification, power sources, necessary controls, etc., which are usually computer-operated. However, the complete system needs a dilution refrigerator/cryocooler with magnetic and thermal shielding. Superconducting electronics can provide devices and circuits with properties not obtainable for any other known technology, i.e., very low loss, zero frequency-dispersion signal transmission lines, very high Q-value resonators and filters, and quantum limited electromagnetic sensors for radiation. Components or devices of low or high-critical-temperature superconductors include inductances (coils), passive transmission lines, resonators, antennae, filters, and active elements: Josephson junctions, sensitive superconducting bolometers, single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits, tunable compact superconducting nanoinductors/resonators, superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs), Josephson oscillators, and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). The impact of the newly discovered high-temperature superconducting materials with transition temperatures well above liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K) could revolutionize electronic technology, as it would bring these very interesting properties and device behaviors to an operating temperature where refrigeration requirements are greatly reduced, and where hybrid semiconductor–superconductor circuits can be built, which make use of the best features of each technology.
This Special Issue is dedicated to the cutting-edge advancements in superconducting nano/microelectronics/quantum circuits and their applications in control structures, devices, and complex systems, with a focus on the design, fabrication, material development, metrology, and characterization of superconducting quantum systems/structures. It welcomes contributions from experimentalists and theorists working in this field and adjacent domains, including researchers, scholars, and practitioners who are pioneering new techniques or algorithms, and best practices for sustainable and control strategies in establishing a metrological ground truth for quantum devices and their applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, material science, metrology, and device development and characterization. In addition, new phenomena might be discovered in these new materials that could impact electronic technology.
Dr. Soumen Kar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- superconducting electronics
- resonators
- single flux quantum
- Josephson junctions
- SNSPD
- SQUID
- metrology
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